Doc: fix minor typos

[user/henk/code/exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index c3fc1fb2145204e14f89aa04253276aa15980710..fb0b6e55015655b94a2dfb80b4032b938afe14c2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -17139,17 +17139,19 @@ prior to the 4.80 release, as Debian used to patch Exim to raise the minimum
 acceptable bound from 1024 to 2048.
 
 
-.option tls_eccurve main string&!! prime256v1
+.option tls_eccurve main string&!! &`auto`&
 .cindex TLS "EC cryptography"
-If built with a recent-enough version of OpenSSL,
-this option selects a EC curve for use by Exim.
+This option selects a EC curve for use by Exim.
 
-Curve names of the form &'prime256v1'& are accepted.
-For even more-recent library versions, names of the form &'P-512'&
-are also accepted, plus the special value &'auto'&
-which tells the library to choose.
+After expansion it must contain a valid EC curve parameter, such as
+&`prime256v1`&, &`secp384r1`&, or &`P-512`&. Consult your OpenSSL manual
+for valid selections.
 
-If the option is set to an empty string, no EC curves will be enabled.
+For OpenSSL versions before (and not including) 1.0.2, the string
+&`auto`& selects &`prime256v1`&. For more recent OpenSSL versions
+&`auto`& tells the library to choose.
+
+If the option expands to an empty string, no EC curves will be enabled.
 
 
 .option tls_ocsp_file main string&!! unset
@@ -38788,7 +38790,7 @@ must be representable in UTF-16.
 .cindex events
 
 The events mechanism in Exim can be used to intercept processing at a number
-of points.  It was originally invented to giave a way to do customised logging
+of points.  It was originally invented to give a way to do customised logging
 actions (for example, to a database) but can also be used to modify some
 processing actions.
 
@@ -38858,7 +38860,7 @@ with the event type:
 The :defer events populate one extra variable: &$event_defer_errno$&.
 
 For complex operations an ACL expansion can be used in &%event_action%&
-however due to the multiple contextx that Exim operates in during
+however due to the multiple contexts that Exim operates in during
 the course of its processing:
 .ilist
 variables set in transport events will not be visible outside that